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What's New in SQL Server 2012
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What's New in SQL Server 2012

by Rachel Horder
October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
238 pages
5h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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New functions

SSIS 2012 has introduced four new functions that can be used to manipulate data in components such as the Derived Column Transformation componet. The new functions are:

  • Left: As its name implies, this takes the left-hand side of a string from a data source. It is useful for operations such as trimming strings, where the target column is not as wide as the source and truncation is deemed to be acceptable; one example would be when apping Male/Female to M/F.
  • ReplaceNull: This is a very powerful feature that allows you to specify on a column by column basis, how nulls will be transformed from a data source. This is particularly useful in data cleansing operations to make null values from source systems consistent and ca be used instead ...
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